Projector



July 8 1924. 1,500,214

S. WILEY PROJECTOR 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed March 7, 1923 M! ,NVENTOR H Samuel I Kl ley A TTORNE Y July 8 1924. 1,500,214

S. WILEY PROJECTOR Filed March '7, 1923 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 ly 1.; rw \z /4 9 4 I. I I I 'I HI I 5 2 315:2. I. i 2 a Samuel ATTORNEY Patented July 8, 1924.

UNITED STATES SAIUEL WILEY, OF HETUCHEN, NEW JERSEY.

PROJECTOR.

Application filed larch 7, 1923. Serial No. 823,465.

(FILED UNDER THE ACT OF IABGH 3, 1888, 22 STAT. L, 825.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL WILEY a citizen of he United States, and a resident of Metuchen count of Middlesex,'and State 6 of New Jersey, iiave invented an Improvement in Projectors, of which the following is a specification.

The invention described. herein may be used by the Government, or any of its officers or employees in prosecution of work for the Government, or by any other person in the United States, without payment to me of any royalty thereon, in accordance with the act of March 3, 1883.

The subject of this invention, is a projector intended for use, primarily, on aircraft and adapted to release a fiare, signal or other device from thecraft.

In the desi of a projector for aircraft it is highly esirable that the projector be so constructed that it may be easily charged or loaded and that, should the fiare or similar device fail to function or misfire, the same may be readily released from the craft without danger of mjury to the craft or its occu ants. a present invention has been devised with above desirable objects in view.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention resides in the novel arrangement and combination of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosedmay be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

A practical embodiment of the invention is shown, by way of illustration, in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of the device, the parts shown in position for loading;

Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section of the device, the parts shown in the same position as in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a similar view, the parts in firing position; 1g. 4 is a similar view, the parts shown in position of extraction of the cap or shell of the signal;

Fig. 5 is a section taken on the line 5-5 Of Flg a 8.

6 is an enlarged detailed sectional view of one of the plungers.

Referring to the drawings by numerals of reference:

In carrying out my invention I prefer to provide a plate 1 which may be attached to any part of the aircraft, preferably in an aperture formed in the oor thereof, which plate is provided with a longitudinally extending aperture 2, and countersunk at one end of the aperture to form a seat 3 for the rim of the cap or shell of the signal and a recess 4 into which the extractor' may enter. Mounted in the sides of the plate, adjacentthe seat 3, are sp pressed plungers 5r which are so positl i g as to engage the cap-or shell when im position on the seat and releasably retain the same in such position. .Grooves 6 may be provided in op osite sides of the plate.

Mounted on t e plate to reci rocate lon tirdinally thereof is a slide having 5;- pending longitudinal edges formed with ton es 8 adapted to engage in the grooves 6 o the late and retain the slide and plate assembled. The plate is apertured and tapped for the reception of a housing 9 in which is mounted a firing pin 10, normally held in elevated position by-suitable means such as the spring 11. Secured on the upwardly projecting end of. the firing pin is a knob 12. iprocable in an aperture formed in the slide is an extractor 13 which is held in its lowermost position by a suit able spring 14, which may be conveniently clamped in p ace upon the slide by the firing pin housing 9. In order to limit the movement of the slide, a sto screw 15 may be threaded through the sllde the downwardly project' en thereof be' suitably spaced from the extractor to all d the shell to be positioned between the extractor and the screw.

In operating the device this slide is drawn back to the position shown in Fig. 1 and the signal consist of a container 16 held in a shell or cap 1 7 in which is provided 100 a primer 18 is Iplaced in position, with the rim of the she seated on the seat 3 and held thereon b the plungers 5. The slide is then moved to the position shown in Fig. 3 in which position the extractor will 106 snap into the recesses 4 and engage the rim of the cap 17 and the firing pin will be immediately above the primer 18. When it is desired to discharge the signal or similar device a sharp blow on the knob 12 will no force the pin down against the primer to prime the primer and ignite the small char e contained in the cap or. shell 17 whic will expel the signal or flare body 16 and at the same time ignite the pyrotechnic compoimd contained therein. The slide may then be drawn to the position shown in Fig. 1 and, in drawing the slide back to such position the extractor will force the shell 17 against the plungers 5 causing the plungers to compress their springs and allow the shell to pass from its seat and fall by gravity from the aircraft.

From the foregoing it is readily understood that, should the signal or flare fail to function, the slide may be drawn back to open position releasing the flare and its shell and allown the same to fall clear of the aircraft wit out injury or danger to the craft or its occupants.

I claim:

1. A projector, embodying a plate formed with an elongated aperture one end of which provides a rest. for a signal device, yielding means for holding a signal in place, a slide on the plate, a housing secured to the slide, a firing pin mounted in the housing and adapted to be brought to position over the primer of a signal, an extractor for extracting-the shell of 'a signal device and means for limiting the movement of the slide.

2. A pro ector, embodying a plate, a seat for the shell of a signal device provided on the plate a slide movable over and away from said seat, a firing pin carried by the slide and operable to prime the rimer of a signal device, an extractor carried by the slide for extracting the shell of a signal device to allow the same to fall by gravity and means for limiting the movement of the slide.

3. A projector, embodying a plate, a seat for the shell of a signallin device provided in the plate, a slide movab e over and away from said seat, a firing pin carried by the slide and operable to prime the primer of the signallin device and an extractor carried by the s 'de adapted to engage the signalling device when the slide is moved over the seat and to slide the signal device from the seat when the slide is moved away from the seat. A v

4. A projector, embodying a plate, means provided on the plate for holdmg a signal to be discharged, a slide' mounted on the plate and movable to positions above and away from'theholding means, means carried by the slide for igniting the signal and means carried .by. the slide 'for releasing the signal as the slide is moved away v from the holding means.

I v SAMUEL WILEY. 

